grande puissance
\ɡʁɑ̃d pɥi.sɑ̃s\
The verdict
“grande puissance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays qui a une influence internationale par son économie et sa politique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-grande-puissance · grande puissance · French
grande puissance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grande puissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡʁɑ̃d pɥi.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « grande puissance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
grande puissance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡʁɑ̃d pɥi.sɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays qui a une influence internationale par son économie et sa politique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for grande puissance in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is grande puissance, spelled G-R-A-N-D-E- -P-U-I-S-S-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Pays qui a une influence internationale par son économie et sa politique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grande puissance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durant les décennies qui précèdent la Grande Guerre, les grandes puissances se sont en effet engagées dans une course au contrôle des territoires qu’elles considèrent comme vides, de l’ouest américain à la Sibérie en passant par de grandes parties de l’Afrique.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.